Merry Christmas (plus long lost “The Jean Genie”) December 24, 2011

I just want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a very happy, safe and successful New Year.

As always, thank you all so much for supporting the blog, with all your comments and nice feedback. Hopefully, you’ve found content here that has been of some use. Now that I’m back at Oracle Corporation, 2012 should hopefully be an exciting year with lots to talk and blog about.

Here’s my Christmas present …

Described as an early Christmas present for all David Bowie fans world-wide, footage of the great man performing his classic hit “The Jean Genie” on England’s “Top of the Pops” has recently re-surfaced. Thought long-lost (as the BBC had a tendency to simply delete their tapes), this was originally recorded way back at the time Bowie was working on the “Aladdin Sane” album, on 3rd January 1973 and broadcast the next day on 4th January 1973. It basically hasn’t been seen since until a cameraman on the show recently told the world he had a copy of the tapes in his shed !!

Now, nearly 40 years on, it’s still a great song, a great band and a great performance.

Could not agree more you took the words right out of my mouth, back in the old “glam daze” that to me was a classic in it’s own time with the
late great Mick Ronson good to see this rare footage, we had 3 great
bands in a similar style including T.Rex & Sweet, & Bowie of course, a big thanks all the best 2 for Christmas & the New Year